I can try - it's the Optio on its macro setting

I was above it and looking down and possibly at a slight angle . I'll keep trying that one - thanks

Mike-P - that's nearer , I think, to what I want

This task was just a last minute thought he had - after we had talked very vaguely on the subject of White Balance and ISO and his suggestion for them was to leave WB on auto and keep ISO low so we didn't get noise ,and then we 'played' with Photoshop and he wants to spend most of the time on that now , and I don't 'cos I need to learn so much more about this K-x and how to get good photos with it - I know I can on Auto - but I don't want to do that all the time or I might as well have stayed with a simple P&S which would not give me what I want.

Nass - he just said Macro , something from the house but all the examples he showed were very definitely abstract - loose wire wrapped round something solid , things interlocking etc etc

Mike-P was using the 18-55 - at 55 but it wasn't happy focusing . Had tried setting the shot up in Av but could not get the hexagon steady no matter how I adjusted my aperture .

I've just had another go with the Optio [ fabulous wee camera - lots to get used to on it ] and finally got these

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[IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP0024.jpg[/IMG]

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Yes - would need to crop the last one [ that Optio lens is certainly wide angle ]

I don't know HOW to use Manual - I'm not ready for that yet - still only using Av and Tv and sometimes struggling with those

I don't want the whole whisk - just the ballon end - and right at the end too

guys I've hit the brick wall again

Trying to do this Macro thing and not coping at all well

Can't shoot it manually on the K-x - don't know how to set it up there at all - have tried but there's too many things for me to have to set - I don't know where to start.

so went back to the K-x and put it to macro - very difficult to get it focused and it insisted on using flash

NOW how can I manage this - instructions in very very simple terms please .

These are what I did get - and I know they won't do

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[IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP0625.jpg[/IMG]

I would like to get the whisk through it's 'working end ' and crop it at the handle

I feel defeat staring me in the face again Part of it is this insistence on abstract - and that's just not me - my mind doesn't work like his

My tutor would have loved the symmetry in #6

I may yet cheat a bit with the macro this week as I suspect the other shot will take time to deal with - my first real play with PSE .

Once the OptioP70 has come I'll do the Macro on that - still to think of a subject mind - but we will see

OH I now have the Tripod Cable release, I believe, is not possible on the K-x but will investigate that once I have time

It wasn't Dixons with me - it was Virgin Media , who could not possibly speak with me or arrange to transfer the account from my dead husband to me . I had explained he had died [ this was 2 days after ] and was told by the nice gentleman somewhere off shore that he HAD to talk to my husband since I didn't know the password !!

Aren't these folk wonderful

I'll get the Campsies pic done first and then think about the other .

I'm actually not very creative - so thinking about a subject isn't very easy for me - sounds strange but true .

Watch this space

I really like it